SEVERAL COUNTRIES are willing to assist the Philippines in enhancing its defense capabilities through a Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) or military exercises.
Showing posts with label VFA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VFA. Show all posts
Monday, April 22, 2024
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Philippines gets U.S. weapons
WASHINGTON HAS provided the Philippines some P48.5 million (about $1 million) worth of weapons and munitions intended to enhance the military’s counterterrorism capabilities and readiness.
Friday, June 18, 2021
Duterte backs out again from his threat to junk VFA
PRESIDENT DUTERTE has backed out for the second time to junk the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with Washington.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Extortion?
FILIPINO LEADER Rodrigo Duterte was strongly criticized for asking the United States to pay up if it wants to keep the Visiting Forces Agreement with the Philippines, a long-time ally of Washington in Southeast Asia.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Sunday, March 8, 2020
HOT OFF THE PRESS: The Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper March 9-15, 2020
https://issuu.com/mindanaoexaminernewspaper/docs/mindanaoexaminer372
Friday, March 6, 2020
Duterte, hinamon ang Amerika!
HINAMON NI Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang Amerika na magsampa ng mga kaso laban sa kanya kaugnay sa alegasyon ng extrajudicial killings ng kanyang madugong war on drugs.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
HOT OFF THE PRESS: The Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper Feb. 24 - Mar. 1, 2020
Digital Version: https://issuu.com/mindanaoexaminernewspaper/docs/mindanaoexaminer370
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Duterte Does the Right Thing for a Change
‘He might be the devil incarnate, but Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte is beginning the process of ending over 120 years of colonial subjugation’ – Walden Belo
PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte’s termination of a key military pact with the United States - the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) - which governed the deployment of U.S. troops in the country has evoked varied responses.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Friday, February 14, 2020
Duterte scraps VFA; wrong move, says Pentagon
‘I don't really mind if they would like to do that, it will save a lot of money – Trump’
PRESIDENT DUTERTE’s termination of the 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States was a wrong move, the Pentagon said, but it will save a lot of money for Washington, according to President Donald Trump.
When asked whether he would try to persuade Duterte to reconsider his decision to scrap the VFA, Trump said: “Well I never minded that very much, to be honest. We helped the Philippines very much. We helped them defeat ISIS ... I don't really mind if they would like to do that, it will save a lot of money. My views are different from others.”
Friday, January 31, 2020
Duterte to make good his threats to scrap VFA
FILIPINO LEADER Rodrigo Duterte has vowed for the second time to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States after Washington cancelled the visa of former Philippine police chief and now Senator Ronald dela Rosa, and forbidden his Cabinet members to go to the United States.
“I am terminating. I was not joking. The day I said it was the day that I decided it should be terminated. Alam mo sabi nila na it’s my — subject to my whim, ‘yung kapritso. No. It started when they mentioned about the resolution in the US Senate. They were trying to figure — trying to figure out who would be the persons who will be barred from entering. Noon pa lang nag — ‘yung utak ko gumagalaw na. Ganun ako eh, hindi naman ako naghihintay,” he told reporters.
“I am terminating. I was not joking. The day I said it was the day that I decided it should be terminated. Alam mo sabi nila na it’s my — subject to my whim, ‘yung kapritso. No. It started when they mentioned about the resolution in the US Senate. They were trying to figure — trying to figure out who would be the persons who will be barred from entering. Noon pa lang nag — ‘yung utak ko gumagalaw na. Ganun ako eh, hindi naman ako naghihintay,” he told reporters.
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